A low-cost WLAN “Green” PIFA antenna on eco-friendly paper substrate

Author

Anagnostou, Dimitrios E. ; Gheethan, Ahmad A. ; Amert, Tony ; Whites, Keith W.

Author_Institution

South Dakota Sch. of Mines & Technol., Rapid City, SD, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This work shows for the first time the practical application of paper as a substrate in real-life wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. Photographic paper is used here in the design, fabrication and testing of a printed inverted F-antenna (PIFA) operating at 2.45 GHz. Although paper substrates exhibit relatively high dielectric losses (tandelta ~ 0.07 at 2.45 GHz), the maximum gain achieved by the fabricated antenna is +1.2 dBi and its total simulated efficiency is approximately 82% at resonance. The simulation results of the return loss, as well as the radiation pattern of the antenna agree with the corresponding measured results that are presented in this work.

Keywords

UHF antennas; dielectric bodies; microstrip antennas; planar inverted-F antennas; wireless LAN; WLAN; dielectric loss; eco-friendly paper substrate; frequency 2.45 GHz; green PIFA antenna; photographic paper; printed inverted F-antenna; wireless local area network; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Dielectric loss measurement; Dielectric losses; Dielectric measurements; Dielectric substrates; Fabrication; Resonance; Testing; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2009. APSURSI '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Charleston, SC

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3647-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2009.5171786

Filename

5171786